James Allworth writes essays on technology companies, Facebook's data practices, business strategy, and politics.
Commenters return to his post on Facebook's handling of personal data and share his pieces on Brexit, Trump, and America's entrepreneurial decline.
I keep coming back to this blog when it comes to Facebook's handling of PII -- they didn't lose it accidentally, but they gave access to it in exchange for developing popular / viral apps for facebook as a platform,
"What the f* was facebook thinking" https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/what-the-f-was-facebook-thinking-a1c49dbf29c2
They gave out users' unique global ID with the export API so it was trivial to merge PII from multiple sources. They didn't have to be hacked, they left the door open. Facebook was full of dumb 'which x-movie-character are you' because every one of those grabbed a few more profiles and at one point, private inbox messages, all to be merged back into somebody's data trove.
Even if CA deleted their data, what about all the other data that has been taken out as per this [1]?
All our data associated with FB unique id is out there. My understanding this has stopped in 2015 but for sure?
Hopefully the data that is out there becomes less relevant over time.
[1] https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/what-the-f-was-facebook-thinking-a1c49dbf29c2
This is a somewhat relevant read - https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-slow-decay-of-americas-entrepreneurial-society-f9aeb6145891
Basically discussed shift from discussion in politics about democracy to economics.
The original Medium article[0] appeared on HN earlier. Can't find the link tho.
[0]: https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-u-s-has-gone-f-ing-mad-52e525f76447#.1yrda2qra
James Allworth wrote something similar that made the case better:
https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/brexit-trump-and-the-ultimatum-game-2237e17de71c#.p8h2i1psh
https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-u-s-has-gone-f-ing-mad-52e525f76447